Great Personalities

Donald John Trump  was born on June 14, 1946.He is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the  45th   President of the United States . Trump was born and raised in  Queens ,  New York City , and earned an  economics   degree  from the  Wharton School  of the  University of Pennsylvania  in 1968. In 1971, he took charge of  his family 's real estate and  construction  firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which was later renamed  The Trump Organization . During  his business career , Trump built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He has lent the use of his name for the branding of  various products and properties . He owned the Miss USA  and  Miss Universe  pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he hosted  The Apprentice , a  reality television  series on  NBC , from 2004 to 2015. As of 2016,...

Barack Hussein Obama  was born on  August 4, 1961. He is an American politician who served as the  44th   President of the United States  from 2009 to 2017. He is the first  African American  to have served as president, as well as the first born outside the  contiguous United States . He previously served in the  U.S. Senate  representing  Illinois  from 2005 to 2008, and in the  Illinois State Senate  from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in  Honolulu, Hawaii , two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. He grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in  Washington State  and four years in  Indonesia . After graduating from  Columbia University  in 1983, he worked as a  community organizer  in  Chicago . In 1988 Obama enrolled in  Harvard Law School , where he was the first black president of the  Harvard Law...

Dara Singh was born on 19 November 1928   in the village of Dharmuchak, which was then a part of  British Punjab  and is now in  Amritsar district  of the Majha  region of Punjab .  He went Singapore   in 1947 where he worked in a drum  manufacturing mill and started his wrestling training under Harnam Singh in the Great world stadium .  As an adult he was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall,   weighed 127 kilograms (280 lb) and had a chest measurement of 53 inches (130 cm). Due to his physique, he was encouraged to take up pehalwani , an Indian style of wrestling. After switching to professional   wrestling  , he competed around the world with opponents such as Bill Verna , Firpo Zbyszko, John Da Silva ,  Danny Lynch and Ski Hi Lee  etc.     Singh became the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha — the upper house  of the Parlimant of India . He ...

           Yusuf Khan , popularly known as Dilip Kumar is one of the greatest and most iconic Indian film actor and a former Member of Parliament.  Starting his career in 1944, Dilip Kumar has starred in some of the biggest commercially successful films from the late 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. His performances have been regarded as the epitome of emoting in Indian Cinema. He was the first actor to receive a Filmfare Best Actor Award and holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won for that category. Awards Filmfare Awards 1994 - Lifetime Achievement Award       1983 - Filmfare Award - Best Actor for Shakti (1982) 1968 - Filmfare Award - Best Actor for Ram Aur Shyam (1967) 1965 - Filmfare Award - Best Actor for Leader (1964) 1961 - Filmfare Award - Best Actor for Kohinoor (1960) 1958 - Filmfare Award - Best Actor for Naya Daur (1957) 1957 - Filmfare Award - Best Actor for Devdas (1955) 1956 - Fi...

              Dharam Dev Pishorimal Anand, popularly known as Dev Anand was born on September 26, 1923. He is a legendary actor and producer of Bollywood film. He was considered as the urban gentleman in his heyday. In 1946, he made his first debut as an actor in the film ‘Hum Ek Hain’ by Prabhat Talkies . Anand has won two Filmfare Awards - India's equivalent of the Oscars - in 1958 for his performance in the film "Kala Paani" and in 1966 for his performance in Navketan International Films' "Guide". "Guide" went on to win Filmfare Awards in five other categories including 'Best Film' and 'Best Director' and was sent as India's entry for the Oscars in the foreign film category that year. He co-produced the English Version of "Guide" with the Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck ("The Good Earth"). Awards Awards of the International Indian Film Academy 2003 - Lifetime Achievement Award        Filmf...

           Jayalalithaa was born in Mysore (now in the state of Karnataka) at a place called Melukote on 24 February 1948. She hailed from a Tamil Iyengar family. Her father Jayaram, a lawyer by profession, passed away when she was just two years old. Consequently, Jayalalitha and her brother Jayakumar had to shift to Bangalore along with their mother.                Her mother, Vedavathi, started working in Tamil cinema with the screen name of Sandhya. ‘Jaya’, meaning 'victorious', is a prefix used in the names of Jayalalitha, her brother Jayakumar and many other members of their family. This portrays the family’s association with the Wodeyar Dynasty of Mysore, which dates back to 1880-1920 when Jayalalitha’s grandfather, a surgeon by profession, used to serve the Mysore Kingdom. Awards and Honours won by Jayalalitha In 1972, the Government of Tamil Nadu honoured her with the Kalaimamani Award. A degree of D...

           Narendra Damodardas Modi was born to a family of grocers in a town called Vadnagar in Mehsana district of Gujarat. He was born on 17 September, 1950 to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heeraben Modi. The couple had six children among which Narendra Modi was the third eldest.               Modi completed his studies against all odds. His saga of struggle began when as a teenager, he, along with his brother, used to run a tea stall near a railway station in Ahmedabad. He did his schooling from Vadnagar and obtained a master's degree in Political Science from Gujarat University. One of his school teachers described him as an average student but a brilliant debater. During his college days, he worked as a 'pracharak' (promoter) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He left home at the age of 17 years and travelled across the country for the next two years. Political Journey of Narendra Modi Became the General...

Jamshedji Tata is considered to be the path-finder of modern industrial builders. He is known as the grand father of Indian Industry for his work and enthusiasm. Jamshedji's father Nasarvanji Tata used to trade in jute with China and Britain. He started export from India. Jamshedji started a cloth mill in Nagpur more than hundred years ago. At that time almost all the cloth used to come from England. He established the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc). Jamshedji Tata was the main person behind the idea to start an Iron and steel Factory. But his dreams was fulfilled by his sons, when they started the Tata Iron and Steel Factory in 1907 first three years after his death. He established the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc).

   Kālidāsa   was a  Classical Sanskrit  writer.  He was one of the Navratnas (9 gems or the most accomplished men of their times) at the court of Chandragupta Vikramaditya. Kalidasa's works include plays, Epics and lyrics.       His play 'Abhinjnana Sakunthalam' (Recognition of Sakunthala) is the most well-known of all his works and it has been translated into various languages of the world. In all, 7 works of Kalidasa are available today. They are: 'Malavikagnimitra', 'Vikramorvasiyam' and 'Abhijnana Sakunthalam' (plays); 'Raghu Vansa' and 'Kumara Sambhavam' (Epics); 'Meghdoot' and 'Ritu Samhara' (lyrics).  As far as literacy merits are concerned, Meghdoot (cloud messenger) is the most excellent work. 

Vikram A Sarabhai           Industries Research Association, a laboratory for research in Physics and the Indian Institute of Management. Sarabhai was the second chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission and the Indian Space Research Organisation.       Sarabhai's study of cosmic rays under the eminent scientist Dr. C.V. Raman, revealed that cosmic rays are a stream of energy particles reaching the earth from the outer space, being influenced on their way by the sun, the atmosphere and magnetism. This study helps in observing terrestrial magnetism and the atmosphere, the nature of the sun and outer space. He was conferred 'Padma Shri' in 1966 and was posthumously awarded 'Padma Vibushan' in 1972. He was also awarded 'Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize' in 1962. This great scientist could be credited with launching India into space age.

Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is an Indian-born steel magnate who is currently based in the United Kingdom and is the chairman and CEO of  ArcelorMittal , the world’s largest manufacturer of steel. Fondly refered to as the Steel Baron of India, he is known for his lavish lifestyle and spening money on his family. He is the owner of a majority (38%) of the total shares in ArcelorMittal and is also the co-owner of the Queens Park Rangers F. C. with 34% stake in the professional football club. Award and honour: Year of Award or Honour Name of Award or Honour Awarding Organization 2008 Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award Forbes 2007 Fellowship King's College London 2004 European Businessman of the Year Forbes 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year Wall Street Journal 2004 8th honorary Willy Korf Steel Vision Award American Metal Market and World Steel Dynamics 1996 Steel Maker of the Year New Steel                        ...

Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was a Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years in Calcutta, India where she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation devoted to helping those in great need. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became a symbol of charitable, selfless work. In 2016, Mother Teresa was canonised by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa. On her arrival in India, she began by working as a teacher; however, the widespread poverty of Calcutta made a deep impression on her, and this led to her starting a new order called “The Missionaries of Charity”. The primary objective of this mission was to look after people, who nobody else was prepared to look after. Mother Teresa felt that serving others was a fundamental principle of the teachings of Jesus Christ.            When she was asked how to promote world peace, she ...

        Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, one of the leading Indian businessmen, was born on December 28, 1932 in Chorwad, Gujarat. Popularly known as Dhirubhai Ambani, he heads The Reliance Industries, India's largest private enterprise.        Dhirubhai started off as a small time worker with Arab merchants in the 1950s and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business in spices. After making modest profits, he moved into textiles and opened his mill near Ahmedabad. Dhirubhai founded Reliance Industries in 1958. After that it was a saga of expansions and successes.                                                                                                             ...